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Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois has become the first Republican to call for Representative Matt Gaetz's resignation amid a probe by the Justice Department into sex trafficking allegations.

In a short tweet, Mr Kinzinger wrote: "Matt Gaetz needs to resign."

The tweet included an article from The Daily Beast that reported the Florida Representative allegedly paid an accused sex trafficker $900 through Venmo in May 2018. Then the accused trafficker, identified as former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, sent that same amount to teenage girls.

Danielle Zoellner reports.

This doesn’t much connect with the politics of the United States, but this reflection of Prince Phillip from the grandson of Winston Churchill nonetheless merits mention on this day of passing of the Queen’s consort.

Here is Sir Nicholas Soames, who knew Prince Phillip well for 60 years, remembering him on a British podcast to say the world had lost a “tough egg” who was a symbol of a fading generation.

“The press, with their attention span for which they are famous, always talks about his ‘gaffes’ — his gaffes were that what you saw was what you got,” Sir Nicholas said.

“He was an absolutely ram rod straight former naval officer, who didn’t have much time for sycophancy or bloody fools or anyone else, and spoke as he found. But he was essentially a man of great good humour, he had tremendous wit and charm … and he held very strong views. This is not a mere figure.”

Sir Nicholas added that Prince Phillip was the epitome of the stiff upper lip and the world had lost a figure of a generation that had lived through an era of profound upheaval.

“He didn’t like bloody fools, and if he thought you were talking rubbish he told you… What you saw with Prince Philip was what you got. He was completely authentic as a human being,” he said.

One of George Floyd’s brothers said the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, the police officer charged killing him, was going “great” but that “it’s all up to jury”, writes The Independent’s Andrew Buncombe in Minneapolis.

“As the trial entered its 10th day, a day when a respected medical expert told the jury Mr Floyd had been killed as a result of the way he was held down by Minneapolis police officers and was thus robbed of oxygen, Rodney Floyd said he was impressed by the witnesses who had spoken, and what they had said. Yet, he said all he and other relatives and supporters of the man whose death last year sparked international outcry, could do was to stick together and hope the jury delivered what they considered a just verdict.”